Jennifer Aniston is set to star and executive produce a new Apple TV+ series based on Jennette McCurdy’s best-selling 2022 memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died.
According to a press release, the upcoming dramedy will center around the “codependent relationship between an 18-year-old actress in a hit kid’s show, and her narcissistic mother who relishes in her identity as ‘a starlet’s mother.’”
Aniston, 56, will play the mother, though the character’s name has not yet been revealed.
McCurdy, who is best known for her roles on iCarly and Sam & Cat, will serve as showrunner alongside Ari Katcher.
"I’m Glad My Mom Died is a heartbreaking" series thatreflects on "Jennette McCurdy’s struggles as a former child actor" while she dealth with her mother, the press release says.
The memoir became a sensation for its blunt honesty about the toll fame and family took on McCurdy’s life, especially her complex and painful relationship with her late mother, Debra McCurdy, who passed away in 2013 after a battle with cancer.
McCurdy has long spoken about her decision to walk away from acting in 2018. In recent years, she’s leaned into writing and directing as a way to process her past, including the trauma tied to her acting career.
But writing her book may have opened a door she once thought was closed.
"I do feel like only through writing the book have I gotten to a place where I think there might be a way of exploring acting that doesn't carry that baggage that I carried with me for so long," McCurdy told E! News in 2022.
She further said that if she writes something for herself, she thinks "that'd really be maybe one of the only ways" she "could kind of try exploring it again."
So far, no additional casting or release details have been shared, but anticipation is already building for what promises to be an emotionally charged and deeply personal series.